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Apple Design Awards 2007 Winners

The quality of winning applications this year was truly stunning. The most prominent winners were Delicious Library 2, Coda, CSSEdit, World of Warcraft, and Sandvox. There were diamonds in the rough, as well.

Best Leopard Application
Winner: Delicious Library 2
Runner-up: iBank

Best Developer Tool
Winner: CSSEdit 2.5
Runner-up: RooSwitch

Best Widget
Winner: BART Widget
Runner-up: PEMDAS

Best Scientific Computing Solution
Winner: Papers 1.0
Runner-up: SingleCrystal

Best Mac OS X Game
Winner: World of Warcraft Burning Crusade 2.0
Runner-up: Wacky Mini Golf

Best Student Product
Winner: Picturesque
Runner-up: Pathway

Best User Experience
Winner: Coda
Runner-up: Sandvox

The out-of-nowhere winners were Picturesque, The BART Widget, and PEMDAS. All are very polished, and truly useful. It's great to see Dan win for Sandvox too.

(Spelling correction: PEMDAS)

Apple Design Awards 2007 Winners
Posted Jun 13, 2007 — 12 comments below

slippy — Jun 13, 07 4336

Absolute nonsense....

iStat Nano was by far the best widget up for nomination.

Not happy...

Tony Arnold — Jun 13, 07 4337

I'm so glad CSSEdit 2.5 won for developer tools. Jan earned that award.

Brad Miller — Jun 13, 07 4338

I have to 2nd slippy on iStat as the best widget around. I thought for sure that it was going to win.

Gabriel Shahbazian — Jun 13, 07 4339

Darn. Lost again. Better luck next year.

[sigh]

Nick Caldwell — Jun 13, 07 4340

I've never heard of some of these -- any links? Can't find PENDAS in Google, for instance.

Senior Soosy — Jun 13, 07 4341

Best Leopard Applications were submitted privately I assume? i.e. DL2 hasn't been unveiled, right? :)

Chris Grande — Jun 13, 07 4342

There is a ever so tiny screenshot of DL2 on Apple's site here: http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/

Scott Stevenson — Jun 13, 07 4344

Best Leopard Applications were submitted privately I assume? i.e. DL2 hasn't been unveiled, right
It was demoed to the group. All post-keynote content is NDA'd. :)

Oskar Lissheim-Boethius — Jun 13, 07 4346

CSSEdit 2.5, fantastic! WoW again... They've earned it, considering they're holding steady at the frontlines of the war against DirectX. Would have been great though if someone who'd really needed that free 30" display had won.

Anon — Jun 13, 07 4349

@Oskar:

After the game award, Apple made a special note that they were giving a hardware + macworld booth award to the runner up, a more indy shop, which I took to mean that Blizzard had passed on that stuff. Though it's conceivable I suppose that Apple decided to spontaneously give two hardware awards in that category.

Daniel Tull — Jun 13, 07 4350

I've never heard of some of these -- any links? Can't find PENDAS in Google, for instance.

Whilst I haven't heard of it before, from the ADA page at Apple, it's actually called PEMDAS. Looks very nice, I'm currently using Soulver as my calculator, and could be a better solution for quicker sums.

Kenneth — Jun 13, 07 4351

WoW again... Pretty lame IMHO...

I'm positively surprised that rooSwitch earned a place as a Runner-Up. :)

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